WASHINGTON--You may have heard that the Federal Communications Commission is plotting a Stanford University "do-over" of a recent public Net neutrality hearing, where Comcast paid people to stand in line. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
Federal Communications Commission

At a meeting with reporters at agency headquarters here, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday dismissed those reports, saying nothing is planned. He suggested that the rumors may have spread because he's making a solo trip to Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday to speak to a law school conference.

Similarly, a Stanford representative told CNET News.com that she wasn't sure how the rumors started and that she is unaware of any FCC hearing being planned.

Martin did say the agency learned a lot at its Harvard Law School hearing last Monday and hasn't ruled out the possibility of staging another one at some point.

"Certainly, California could end up being a good place to end up doing it," he said in response to a question posed by CNET News.com at the roundtable meeting with reporters.

An FCC representative followed up with this e-mail message: "The chairman never indicated that there would or would not be additional hearings, only indicated that there may be additional hearings. No decision has yet been made."